House M.D. (TV Series)

Dying Changes Everything (2008)

Hugh Laurie: Dr. Gregory House

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• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : [after House opens his door]  Mind if I come in?

  Dr. Gregory House : Not at all. Do you mind if I leave?

• Dr. Gregory House : [to Wilson]  I'm sorry. I know I didn't try to kill her. I know I didn't want her hurt. I know it was a freak accident, but I feel like crap and she's dead because of me.

  Dr. James Wilson : I don't blame you. I wanted to. I tried to. I must have reviewed Amber's case file 100 times to find a way. But it wasn't your fault.

  Dr. Gregory House : Then we're okay? I mean, I know you're not, but... maybe I can help.

  Dr. James Wilson : We're not okay. Amber was never the reason I was leaving. I didn't want to tell you because... because I was trying, like I always do, to protect you which is the problem. You spread misery because you can't feel anything else. You manipulate people because you can't handle any kind of real relationship and I've enabled it for years. The games, the binges, the middle-of-the-night phone calls. I should have been the one on the bus, not... you should have been alone on the bus. If I've learned anything from Amber, it's that I have to take care of myself. We're not friends anymore, House. I'm not sure we ever were.

  [picks up his box and leaves his office] 

• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : [to House]  You are not listening to me, are you?

  Dr. Gregory House : Try it some time. You'll see why.

• Thirteen : Why is everyone leaping to conclude a strong career woman's been made sick by her strong career? It's not B12! It's an insulinoma in her pancreas. It's making her hypoglycemic.

  Dr. Gregory House : [sarcastically]  Oh, great! Now everyone knows!

  Dr. Chris Taub : You knew the patient had cancer?

  Dr. Gregory House : Is that what she said? I thought she said: "I am suddenly and irrationally defending the patient's strong career, even though in reality she's just a glorified grunt because I am trying to convince myself that it's okay not to have a life because I don't have a life, because I was tested for Huntington's and my lifespan's been cut in half." Been waiting two months for her to say that.

• Dr. James Wilson : I just need a change of scenery.

  Dr. Gregory House : Buy a plant!

• Dr. Gregory House : So you're treating professional sports injuries now?

  Overweight Patient : Oh, no, I'm not...

  Dr. Gregory House : ...familiar with the concept of sarcasm. Don't sweat it, it's new.

• Dr. Gregory House : I like you better now that you're dying.

  Thirteen : I was wrong.

  Dr. Gregory House : You took a shot.

  Thirteen : She's going back to work for that idiot. It's pathetic.

  Dr. Gregory House : You thought something would change?

  Thirteen : She almost died. Because of that job. Yeah, I... I thought...

  Dr. Gregory House : Almost dying changes nothing. Dying changes everything.

• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : [to House]  Wilson's back. You gonna say...

  Dr. Gregory House : Gone two months. He can wait till I finish slaying a guy in a skullcap and a pair of tights.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : On a video game you stole from the pediatric ward?

  Dr. Gregory House : On advice of counsel, I assert my privilege pursuant to the Fifth.

• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Talk to each other.

  Dr. Gregory House : How are you doing? Good?

  Dr. James Wilson : Fine, thanks.

  [they both get up to leave] 

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Eh, eh, eh, eh, sit!

  [they both sit back] 

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : See? The two of you are friends. Look how you both...

  Dr. Gregory House : ...think you're an idiot. We both also eat with forks. That doesn't really prove...

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Talk to him! Tell him how you feel about what he's doing.

  Dr. Gregory House : I told him he's an idiot.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Tell him what you think about him leaving.

  Dr. Gregory House : I think he's an idiot.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : You're an idiot. He's in pain, and your response is just to emotionally blackmail him!

  Dr. Gregory House : You told me what your position is on that one. You're against it, right?

  Dr. James Wilson : She hasn't told you in front of me. She needs to prove she's on my side.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : [to Wilson]  Go to hell!

  Dr. Gregory House : So much for that theory.

• Dr. Allison Cameron : [about Wilson]  You want me to sleep with him to get him to stay?

  Dr. Gregory House : I put the bisexual chick on that. If you'd like to sit in, so to speak...

• Overweight Patient : The two of you used to be together?

  Dr. Gregory House : [sarcastically]  She dumped me when I lost the last 85 pounds. Said there was less of me to love.

• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Why do you think Wilson's leaving?

  Dr. Gregory House : How many times do I have to use the word "idiot"?

• Dr. Gregory House : I'm busy.

  Thirteen : We need you to...

  Dr. Gregory House : Actually, as you can see, I'm not busy. It's just an euphemism for "get the hell out of here!"

• Dr. Allison Cameron : [to House]  Grief means different things to different people. Case in point, means very little to you.

  Dr. Gregory House : Grief is Newark. Okay, it's there. You can't avoid it. The idea is to hold your nose, hope the traffic's not too bad and get on to Manhattan as quickly as possible, not to buy property.

  Dr. Allison Cameron : You think that's facing up to things?

  Dr. Gregory House : I'm not the one who's quitting.

  Dr. Allison Cameron : 'Cause you haven't lost anything.

  Dr. Gregory House : But you have. He'll listen to you. What did you do when your husband died?

  Dr. Allison Cameron : I got a new job and I moved.

  Dr. Gregory House : See how crappy that worked out?

• Dr. Gregory House : Patient's in cardiac arrest. Ouchy!

• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : [about Wilson]  When was the last time you talked to him?

  Dr. Gregory House : I think it was after... when did his girlfriend die? He wanted time alone. Considered being a horrendous pain in the ass, but I didn't want to tread on your turf.

• Thirteen : [to House]  You told me to get tested.

  Dr. Gregory House : I didn't know it was gonna color your every medical opinion, every personal opinion.

  Thirteen : You didn't think a death sentence would...

  Dr. Gregory House : People die! You, Amber, everyone. Don't act like you just figured that out. I gave you a diagnosis. You don't like it, there are exits on every floor.

• Dr. Gregory House : [to Wilson]  You're being an idiot. You're gonna blow up your career. And six months from now, when you've moved on from Amber to burnt sienna, you're gonna be stuck in a mobile oncology truck in Pewaukee, Wisconsin.

  Dr. James Wilson : I'd need a flow chart to explain all the ways in which that was ridiculously insensitive.

  Dr. Gregory House : You can't hide from misery.

  Dr. James Wilson : This isn't your business.

  Dr. Gregory House : My skull was cracked open trying to save her!

  Dr. James Wilson : Then we all need a little tea and sympathy. I'm through discussing it.

• Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Tell him you're sorry.

  Dr. Gregory House : I didn't kill her.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : You were drunk and...

  Dr. Gregory House : Yeah, if her daddy hadn't been drunk, she might never have been born. So.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : You called her up in the middle of the night. She was on the bus because of you.

  Dr. Gregory House : I didn't ask her to come out. I wasn't driving the bus, I wasn't driving the garbage truck that hit the bus, and I did not prescribe her the flu meds that killed her.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Yes, I know, that's all true... You really don't feel any sense of guilt? You want to keep him, he needs to know he's not alone. Just tell him you feel like crap.

  Dr. Gregory House : It'd be meaningless.

  Dr. Lisa Cuddy : Well, then, find some meaning, and do something.